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1. The Tower of Babel

   (Deuteronomy 32:8; Acts 2:1–13)

2. 1UDBAt this time, all the people in the world spoke the same language.BSBBSB: Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.
3. 2UDBAs people moved around in the east, they arrived at a plain in the region of Babylon and began to live there.BSBBSB: And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
4. 3UDBThen they said to each other, "Let us make bricks and bake them to make them hard, for building!" So they used bricks instead of stones, and used tar instead of mortar to hold them together.BSBBSB: And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
5. 4UDBThey said, "Let us build a city for ourselves! We also ought to build a very high tower that reaches up to the sky! In that way people will know who we are! If we do not do this, we will be scattered all over the earth!"BSBBSB: “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
6. 5UDBOne day Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that the people were building.BSBBSB: Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
7. 6UDBYahweh said, "These people are one group that all speak the same language. If they have begun to do this, then there is nothing that they will decide to do that will be impossible for them!BSBBSB: And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.
8. 7UDBSo, let us go down there and make the people speak different languages, so that they will not be able to understand what each other is saying."BSBBSB: Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
9. 8UDBBy doing this, Yahweh caused them to scatter all over the earth, and the people stopped building the city.BSBBSB: So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
10. 9UDBThe city was called Babel because there Yahweh caused the people all over the earth to no longer speak only one language. And Yahweh caused them to scatter all over the earth from that place.BSBBSB: That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

11. Genealogy from Shem to Abram

    (1 Chronicles 1:17–27)

12. 10UDBThese are those who descended from Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was one hundred years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.BSBBSB: This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
13. 11UDBAfter Arphaxad was born, Shem lived five hundred more years and became the father of other sons and daughters.BSBBSB: And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
14. 12UDBWhen Arphachshad was thirty-five years old, he became the father of Shelah.BSBBSB: When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.
15. 13UDBAfter Shelah was born, Arphaxad lived 403 more years and became the father of other sons and daughters.BSBBSB: And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
16. 14UDBWhen Shelah was thirty years old, he became the father of Eber.BSBBSB: When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.
17. 15UDBAfter Eber was born, Shelah lived 403 more years and became the father of other sons and daughters.BSBBSB: And after he had become the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
18. 16UDBWhen Eber was thirty-four years old, he became the father of Peleg.BSBBSB: When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.
19. 17UDBAfter Peleg was born, Eber lived 430 more years and became the father of other sons and daughters.BSBBSB: And after he had become the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
20. 18UDBWhen Peleg was thirty years old, he became the father of Reu.BSBBSB: When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.
21. 19UDBAfter Reu was born, Peleg lived 209 more years and became the father of other sons and daughters.BSBBSB: And after he had become the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
22. 20UDBWhen Reu was thirty-two years old, he became the father of Serug.BSBBSB: When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug.
23. 21UDBAfter Serug was born, Reu lived 207 more years and became the father of other sons and daughters.BSBBSB: And after he had become the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
24. 22UDBWhen Serug was thirty years old, he became the father of Nahor.BSBBSB: When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor.
25. 23UDBAfter Nahor was born, Serug lived two hundred more years and became the father of other sons and daughters.BSBBSB: And after he had become the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
26. 24UDBWhen Nahor was twenty-nine years old, he became the father of Terah.BSBBSB: When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.
27. 25UDBAfter Terah was born, Nahor lived 119 more years and became the father of other sons and daughters.BSBBSB: And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
28. 26UDBAfter Terah was seventy years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.BSBBSB: When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

29. Terah’s Descendants

30. 27UDBThis is what happened concerning the descendants of Terah: Terah's sons were Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran's son was named Lot.BSBBSB: This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
31. 28UDBHaran's father was with him when Haran died in the city of Ur, in the country of the Chaldeans. This is the land where he was born.BSBBSB: During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
32. 29UDBAbram and Nahor both married. Abram's wife was named Sarai, and Nahor's wife was named Milkah. Milkah and her sister Iskah were the daughters of Haran.BSBBSB: And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
33. 30UDBSarai was unable to have any children.BSBBSB: But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
34. 31UDBTerah decided to leave Ur and go to live in the land of Canaan. So he took his son Abram and his grandson Lot son of Haran and Abram's wife Sarai with him. But instead of going to Canaan, they stopped at the town of Haran and lived there.BSBBSB: And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
35. 32UDBWhen Terah was 205 years old, he died in Haran.BSBBSB: Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.